17 AUGUST 1907, page 17

Goat-keeping For Cottagers.

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIM Seacrerod:'] SIR, —You may like to hear of goat-keeping which was, and is, successfully carried on in a district which I know. My father, who, like......

Two Etymologies. -

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Diez on the " Romance Languages," checked and supplemented by my late friend M. Gaston Paris, had long been familiar to me, when,......

[to Tiir Editor Op The " Spectator.'l Sir,—i Am Not

among those who understood your corre- spondent (Spectator, July 27th) to say that Parnassia palustris was extinct in England. I can add Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland......

Wild-flower Sanctuaries.

LTO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, — As to the question relating to the " Grass of Parnassus " raised by some of your correspondents, may I point out that it was only the......

Books.

VERGILII MUSA CONSOLATRIX.* AMONG the great writers of epic poetry Virgil holds a place which is in one respect entirely his own. Homer, Dante, and Milton present us with clear......

Poetry.

A SUMMER NIGHT. Blindly the ghost-moths Back to that other Brush by our faces, Where fond pieties Pass in the gloom. Sheltered my youth IN the dusk garden Hushed are all voices,......